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Just picked this up in one of the news reports. They seem to be burying these very important notes deep in old statements as if they are trying to hide them.
Because one of the things that I noticed was how they are starting off in new reports using one or two paragraphs of new news, and then just adding old news over them to make it look like a huge story. Pretty shoty journalism if you ask me.

The discovery of plutonium, released from fuel rods only when temperatures are extremely high, confirms the severity of the damage, Nishiyama said.

When plutonium decays, it emits what is known as an alpha particle, a relatively big particle that carries a lot of energy. When an alpha particle hits body tissue, it can damage the DNA of a cell and lead to a cancer-causing mutation.

Plutonium also breaks down very slowly, so it remains dangerously radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years.

"If you inhale it, it's there and it stays there forever," said Alan Lockwood, a professor of Neurology and Nuclear Medicine at the University at Buffalo and a member of the board of directors of Physicians for Social Responsibility, an advocacy group.